WRQC527

I haven't heard of any. That doesn't mean there weren't any, just not any as laughable or that have gone viral like this one.

I once received a complimentary compliment that I wrote down and filed in a compliment file as a complement to my collection of complementary compliments.

I think they were defunded back in 2020 after the GMRS Matters rallies.

Two reasons. First, for a extra layer of comms in addition to amateur radio, and second, because my wife isn't interested in getting a ham license, but we still like to use radio to communicate if I'm out of cell coverage but within repeater coverage. Which happens occasionally when I'm out hiking with friends in fringe cell coverage areas.

Reminds me of a line in a WWII movie I saw. A bunch of pilots sitting around drinking, one of them lifts his glass and says "Here's to our wives and girlfriends... May they never meet!"

Another suggestion is simply a longer dual-band antenna. While it still isn't that close to resonant on the air band, there's more antenna. More steel in the air, as some amateurs are fond of saying. I have a Uniden BC75XLT handheld scanner that covers the air band. With the short stock antenna it works pretty well, but just having a longer antenna it works better. The Diamond SR77CA is a popular choice. That way you retain the ability to transmit while getting somewhat better air band reception.

My Jetstream doesn't either, but it will probably snap at the base if I hit something with it like the garage door. Those bull bar antennas can probably take quite a hit, what with those springs at the base.

From one of the many available dictionaries, including the Cambridge and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, (both very well-respected), @RayP used the word correctly. Hope this helps you and others. Anxiously Adverb 1. In an uneasy or worried manner. 2. In an earnestly desirous or eager manner.

They have, and this subject has been brought up in the past as well. But it's sometimes refreshing to get new views on the subject.

It was a typical guest poster hit-and-run. Sit on the sidelines and watch it burn. He probably won't be back.

*Disclaimer: The views expressed by WRQC527 do not necessarily reflect the views of the entire MyGMRS community. I don't get these antennas. I just watched a couple of videos about them. The reasons folks were running them had more to do with looks than function. They do work just fine, but it was more about wanting to look like their Australian counterparts. Personally, I don't want a four-foot baseball bat on the front or back of my vehicle. Also, I have in the past run one of them fat Firestik CB antennas, which at highway speeds generated a lot of wind noise, and in some cases a "whistle", which can be annoying inside a vehicle. No, for me I'm fine with my Jetstream JTM3B that I hardly know is there and covers GMRS and amateur.

Antennas don't care if they're if they're listening to AM or FM. They care about resonance. Air band is in the VHF neighborhood, and lower frequency than the amateur radio two-meter band, so an antenna would need to be resonant at lower frequencies than a typical amateur dual-band HT antenna. A quarter-wave antenna for air bands is around 24 inches long, versus about 19 inches for an equivalent two-meter quarter-wave antenna. That's why it sounds "crunchy". It's not resonant on the air band. I have an Icom handheld airband transceiver with a rubber duck antenna specifically tuned for the air band. It has a BNC connector. Perhaps you could find such an antenna that you could afix to your Baofeng that would be more effective than the stock antenna. Check out suppliers of aviation handheld radios and perhaps they'll have replacement antennas available for you to purchase. Be mindful of the antenna connector on your radio as you might need an adapter, and that an air band antenna will be pretty useless as a TX antenna for the other bands your radio can transmit on.

Typical guest hit-and-run. I doubt they'll be back.

You're stirring the pot is what you're doing. This is a website devoted to those of us who use and find value in GMRS. If you have a specific question about the use of GMRS, GMRS equipment, how-tos, etiquette, that kind of thing, fire away. I think most of us here would recommend GMRS for what you're doing, but since you've already decided it's useless to you, I think we'd be talking to a wall.

I still think it's a weak attempt at bullying even if it is legit, since the FCC has made no effort to un-muddy the waters up until now. And asking radio narcs for call signs is a new low even for them.

Our group is doing an overnight setup at a campground here in SoCal. We're not trying to compete, we just want to get out and operate off the grid. Last year we actually made it into QST magazine.

Some folks are gullible enough to fall for crap like this. Scammers love them.

It would make much more sense if folks would say "allegedly" from the FCC Enforcement Bureau, because simply saying it was from the FCC gives it credibility that it neither has nor deserves.

I'm not going to straight-up say the letter to that club is fake because I have not seen the letter, and whoever supplied the letter failed to identify either who sent it or the email address from where it was sent. All we have seen are portions the "offending" radio club's communication describing the letter. But there more red flags than a Cuban May Day parade. A "verbal warning" is when one person speaks using a human voice to another human. An email is not a verbal warning. The FCC would probably not suggest that anything be done "by the end of the day". I cannot imagine the FCC expecting a repeater operator to rat out all the users by supplying call signs. As a repeater trustee myself, if there was anything amiss with our repeaters, such as spurious emissions, or any of a litany of problems emitting from our equipment, they would contact me, not the members of my club or users of our repeaters. By snail mail, not email. That's why the FCC requires your physical address (or PO box). If a licensed operator is violating rules, the FCC would go directly to them without the need for a radio narc. Apparently, according to the letter, the FCC has the roster of all the offending club's members, including email addresses. Another red flag. To me, the letter sounds like an angry GMRS user who is trying to bully a club by generating a letter that sounds just legitimate enough to scare them out of linking repeaters.

I went by Viking back in the 80s. Now I hear all the big guns from back east booming in to the west coast using 3-digit numbers.

Highly advisable, practical and doable. Think about this. If you hardwire a GMRS mobile radio into your vehicle, it's useless to you unless you're driving. If you use your HT with both a mag mount in the car and with the stock antenna when you're out of your vehicle, you've doubled the utility of your HT. Five watts is plenty if you have decent repeaters available.

Apparently "pros" need to receive air band, 1.25 Mhz and 1 Mhz to be considered pros.

I would hear the drive-through covid test clinic down the street back in 2020-2021 doing comms between the front office and the nice ladies shoving sticks up folk's noses through the car windows. I also hear daycare centers coordinating drop offs and pickups, as well as restaurant staff.

Can you feel any magnetic attraction at all when you place the mount on the roof? Or does it "sort of" stick until you start driving, then slides? What kind of mag mount? How big? What kind of antenna? Help us out here. My limited research on the 2024 Silverado reveals that it has some aluminum panels, but the roof is steel.

I was happy to discover that my Jetstream JTM3B covers 2 meters, 70 centimeters and GMRS. It doesn't need a ground plane, so I put it on a 24 foot window washing pole.